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Lecture Transcript 9TH A NNUAL Frank K. Kelly Lecture ON HUMANITY’S FUTURE AMBASSADOR Max Kampelman ZERO NUCLEAR WEAPONS FOR A SANE AND SUSTAINABLE WORLD NUCLEAR AGE PEACE FOUNDATION Working for a World Free of Nuclear Weapons EMPOWERING PEACE LEADERS Strengthening International Law Frank K. Kelly Lecture ON HUMANITY’S FUTURE he Frank K. Kelly Lecture on Humanity’s Future was established by the Nuclear Age Peace TFoundation in 2002. The lecture series honors Frank Kelly, a founder and senior vice president of the Foundation, whose vision and compassion are perpetuated through this ongoing lecture series. Each annual lecture is presented by a distin - guished individual to explore the contours of humanity’s present circumstances and ways by which we can shape a more promising future for our planet and all its inhabitants. Mr. Kelly, for whom the lecture series is named, gave the inaugural lecture in 2002 on “Glorious Beings: What We Are and What We May Become.” The lecture presented in this booklet, “Zero Nuclear Weapons for a Sane and Sustainable World,” is the ninth in the series. It was presented by Ambassador Max Kampelman at Santa Barbara City College on February 25, 2010. The 2009 lecture was presented by Frances Moore Lappé on “Living Democracy, Feeding Hope.” The 2008 lecture was given by Colman McCarthy on “Teach Peace.” The 2007 lecture was delivered by Jakob von Uexküll on “Globalization: Values, Responsibil - ity and Global Justice.” The 2006 lecture was presented by Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Corrigan Maguire on “A Right to Live without Violence, Nuclear Weapons and War.” The 2005 lecture was delivered by Dr. Robert Jay Lifton on “America and the Human Future: Surviving Vietnam, 9/11, and Iraq.” The 2004 lecture in this series was presented by Dame Anita Roddick on “Kindness as a Key to Humanity’s Future.” Profes - sor Richard Falk gave the 2003 lecture on “American Civil Liberties and Human Rights Under Siege.” Frank Kelly has had a remarkable life. He has been a science-fiction writer (later inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame), a journalist, a soldier in World War II, a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, a speechwriter for Harry Truman, the assistant to the US Senate Majority Leader, vice president of the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions and a leader in the campaign to create the US Institute for Peace. He co-founded the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation in 1982. He is the author of ten books and countless articles. Beyond all of his achievements, Frank has exhibited a remarkable faith in humanity and its future. He has lived with a spirit of optimism and hope. He has been a visionary advocate for humanity and has inspired many people through his writing and teaching to take action on behalf of humanity. The lecture series is endowed to carry forward Frank’s vision. If you would like to help support the lecture series by adding to the endowment, please let us know. We also invite you to learn more about the Frank K. Kelly Lecture series and about the work of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation by visiting our website: www.wagingpeace.org. Prior lectures in this series are available from the Foundation. INTRODUCTION mbassador Max Kampelman has had a long and full life as an educator, lawyer and Adiplomat. As an educator, his first love, he has been a teacher of political science at the University of Minnesota, Bennington College, Claremont College, the University of Wisconsin and Howard University. As a lawyer, Ambassador Kampelman has had a long association with the law firm of Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson (now Fried Frank), and he is currently of counsel with the firm. As a diplomat, he served under Presidents Carter and Reagan as Ambassador and Head of the U.S. Delegation to the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe from 1980 to 1983. From 1985 to 1989, he was President Reagan’s chief arms control negotiator, serving as head of the U.S. delegation to the Negotia - tions with the Soviet Union on Nuclear and Space Arms in Geneva. In 2006, Ambassador Kampelman wrote an influential op-ed in the New York Times , calling for US leadership for the elimination of all weapons of mass destruction. He wrote, “Unfortunately, the goal of globally eliminating all weapons of mass destruc - tion — nuclear, chemical and biological arms — is today not an integral part of Ameri - can foreign policy; it needs to be put back at the top of our agenda.” He has been a strong advocate of seeking agreement on the “ought” of a world without nuclear weapons and then finding the means to make this ought a reality. For this article and other efforts, Ambassador Kampelman is viewed by many as a motivating force behind the series of influential Wall Street Journal op-eds calling for a world without nuclear weapons, which ran in 2007, 2008 and 2010, by former high- level policy makers George Shultz, William Perry, Henry Kissinger and Sam Nunn. Ambassador Kampelman has received many awards for his work, including the Presi - dential Citizens Medal in 1989 from President Reagan, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1999 from President Clinton. In 2008, he received the Democracy Service Medal of the National Endowment for Democracy for his lifetime of achievement in advancing the principles of freedom, human rights and democracy. In 2000, Ambassador Kampelman was selected by the Library of Congress as a Living Legend. It is an apt description of this very decent, charming and hardworking leader. We were honored to have him with us as the 2010 Kelly Lecturer on the occasion of our 9th Annual Frank K. Kelly Lecture on Humanity’s Future, and we are pleased to present his written lecture in this booklet. David Krieger President Nuclear Age Peace Foundation 1 2010 FRANK K. KELLY LECTURE ON HUMANITY’S FUTURE ZERO NUCLEAR WEAPONS FOR A SANE AND SUSTAINABLE WORLD By Max M. Kampelman t will take time, patience, pain and good for - processes and more, which are altering every tune, but our welfare as human beings, indeed phase of our lives, deaths, and even reproduction. Ithe survival for many, must be based on more than the threat of nuclear retaliation. A balance We are living in a period of information power of nuclear terror is not an adequate basis for our with the telefax, electronic mail, the super survival as human beings or as a country, or for computer, high definition television, the laser our country’s strategic policy, although it did printer, the cellular phone, the optical disc, video recently serve to permit the United States and conferences, the satellite dish – instruments Russia to substantially reduce the number of our which still appear to my eyes to be near miracles. strategic nuclear weapons. What does remain No generation since the beginning of the human and cannot be ignored, however, is the existence race has experienced or absorbed so much of active rogue and terrorist forces in the world change so rapidly – and it is probably only the seeking nuclear capabilities for their dangerous beginning. As an indication of that, more than purposes. I am convinced that zero nuclear 100,000 scientific journals annually publish the weapons, urged by the Nuclear Age Peace flood of new knowledge that pours out of the Foundation and others, must be our immediate world’s laboratories. civilized goal. These developments are stretching our minds Where are we heading? Are democracy and and our grasp of reality to the outermost dimen - liberty our human destiny, as suggested by sions of our capacity to understand them. More - Francis Fukiyama? Or do we face an inevitable over, as we look ahead we must agree that we violent clash of civilizations on perhaps a world - wide scale, as suggested by Samuel Huntington? Let me point out that during my childhood, one lifetime, strange as it may appear to the young among us, there were no vitamin tablets, no antibiotics, no televisions, no dial telephones, no refrigerators, no FM radios, no synthetic fibers, no dishwashers, no electric blankets, no e airmail, no transatlantic airlines, no instant s u o coffee, no Xerox, no air conditioning, no frozen H e t foods, no contact lenses, no birth control pills, no i h ballpoint pens, no transistors. The list can go on. W : o t In my lifetime, medical knowledge available to o h physicians has increased perhaps more than ten - P fold. I am told that more than 80 percent of all President Ronald Reagan greets Ambassador Max Kam - scientists who ever lived are alive today. The pelman in the Oval Office of the White House in the mid-1980s. Ambassador Kampelman was the chief US average life span of the human being keeps arms control negotiator with the Soviet Union during steadily increasing. We now have complicated that period. George H.W. Bush, then Vice-President, is computers, new materials, new biotechnological in the background. 2 r e t r a C k c i R : o t o h P Ambassador Max Kampelman helped pursue President Reagan’s goal of eliminating all nuclear weapons in his role as the top US arms control negotiator. In his Kelly Lecture, on February 25, 2010, he inspired a packed auditorium at Santa Barbara City College, encouraging us all to find a way to move from what “is” – a world with a risk of in - creasing global disaster – to what “ought” to be: a peaceful, civilized world free of nuclear weapons. have only the minutest glimpse of what our later appearances at r e t r universe really is.
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